What was your Golden Movie Year?

[The Borgified Corpse]

I certainly remember paying a lot more attention to movies starting in 1999.

Probably my most memorable theater experiences were in 2002, where my friends were camping outside the theater for 2 weeks for Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Spending that much time around the theater, I ending up picking up a lot of other films like Blade II, Men in Black II, The Scorpion King, Spider-Man, & xXx. Later that year, you had 4 huge events with Die Another Day, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Star Trek: Nemesis. It was my 1st (and still arguably the best) Harry Potter movie, the 1st Lord of the Rings movie that I actually liked, and one last hurrah for my favorite Starship Enterprise crew.

2006 had a lot of my big favorites: Mission Impossible III, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Superman Returns, V for Vendetta, X-Men: The Last Stand.

But in retrospect, the 1980s churned out more classics, particularly in 1984 & 1989.

1984: Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III, The Terminator.

1989: Back to the Future, Part II; Batman; Ghostbusters 2; Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade; Star Trek V.

 

[Cicero]

1998-2002 were all fantastic years for me. I think 2002 was probably (slightly) the best of those, though most of my favorite movies from that period came out in other years.

2002
The Bourne Identity
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
The Count of Monte Cristo
Drumline
The Emperor's Club
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Hart's War
High Crimes
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Minority Report
Red Dragon
Spider-Man
Together
We Were Soldiers
Whale Rider

Non-formatively, I would say that much of the early/mid-1930s to early 1940s were nearly as good as - or perhaps better than - the mid-1990s to early 2000s. I give a great deal of the credit in both cases to our having had good presidents during and leading up to both periods (with one term of a slightly substandard officeholder interrupting just before the period began in both cases); for some reason, the country seems to produce better movies when we have sound leadership.

 

[spooky spice]

1977. Star Wars

It changed my life.

+1

 

[Admiral Shran]

for some reason, the country seems to produce better movies when we have sound leadership.

Exactly. Which is why the 1980s produced so many great movies.

 

[SPCTRE]

My golden movie year was when I discovered free porn, i.e. the internet. Circa 1998?